from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. In the New Testament, a class of teachers next in rank to apostles and prophets, but probably not constituting a permanent order.

n. In church hist., an itinerant preacher who travels from place to place, according to opportunity or requisition, in contradistinction to the pastor or teacher, who is settled in one place and instructs the people of a special charge.

n. One of the writers of the four evangels or Gospels.

n. In the Mormon Ch., an ecclesiastical official, also called a patriarch, whose duty it is “to bless the fatherless in the Church, foretelling what shall befall them and their generation. He also holds authority to administer in other ordinances of the Church” (Mormon Catechism, xvii.).

He's the company's vice president for environmental affairs, and the word "evangelist" does not fully capture his intensity on the subject of petroleum-based plastic and the harm that he believes it does to the environment.

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